Of a hundred gunners thou’st be my head.’

13.

13.4, 16.4: ‘bread,’ breadth.

‘My lord,’ says he, ‘if you have chosen me

Of a hundred gunners to be the head,

Hang me at your main-mast tree

If I miss my mark past three pence bread.’

14.

The next of all my lord he did call,

A noble bowman he was one;